Monthly Archives: December 2017

The UK trails countries like Germany, Spain Italy and France when it comes to making its services available digitally, despite being seen as a leader in digital innovation, according to a benchmark of eGovernment services across Europe. With an overall digital services score of 59%, it was some way behind …

Moscow’s government is taking advantage of high penetration of broadband and mobile internet to expand innovative services under the Russian capital’s smart city programme. Authorities began to look at what other cities are doing under their smart city programmes at the beginning of last year. Eldar Tuzmukhametov, head of Moscow …

Enterprise appetites for multi-cloud deployments are on the rise, but many firms may struggle to reap the benefits because of the growing complexity of service providers’ product portfolios. According to 451 Research’s Voice of the enterprise: cloud transformation study, there is a growing appetite among enterprises for taking a mix-and-match …

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Trust has deployed Commvault backup software to handle data protection on its consolidated and mostly virtualised environment based on Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure. The move has seen the Trust cut down significantly on management overhead – having ditched multiple legacy backup applications – and seen backup times …

More than half of banks in Europe expect an increase in operational risk to their organisation over the next 12 months, according to a major report from the European Banking Association (EBA). The EBA said perceived operational risks have escalated over the past three years, with banks’ rapid move to …

The Stephen Hawking’s Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (Cosmos) is set to use HPE’s in-memory technology to help further its research into the early universe and black holes. Cosmos is the first customer of HPE’s latest modular in-memory platform, Superdome Flex. The latest supercomputer is supporting the work of the faculty, …

Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Andy Jassy has stuck the boot into the proprietary database provider community by claiming enterprises are desperate to abandon their technologies in favour of cheaper and better-performing alternatives. Jassy told delegates, during the Partner Summit Keynote at the annual AWS Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, …

Norway’s banks are fighting off competition from global technology giants by creating a merged payment service. The banks have signed a letter of intent to bring three payment and identification systems – Vipps, BankAxept and BankID Norway – under the same roof. By submitting your personal information, you agree that …

The pace of innovation and new product development at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is often cited by analysts as being one of the cloud giant’s biggest sources of competitive difference. According to data from 451 Research, published ahead of this year’s AWS Re:Invent partner and customer conference in Las Vegas, …

Despite local authorities facing budget cuts, spending on Oracle appears to be increasing, according to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request conducted by database firm TmaxSoft. Out of the 60 councils that responded to its FOI request, TmaxSoft reported that just under a third said their spend on Oracle had …